livres
Description:
72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Santa Fe, N.M. : SITES Books, ©2005.
Simone Swan : adobe building / Dennis Dollens.
Actions:
Exemplaires:
Description:
72 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
livres
Santa Fe, N.M. : SITES Books, ©2005.
livres
Description:
152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Ahmedabad, India : Mapin ; Ocean Township, N.J. : Grantha ; Easthampton, Mass. : Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, 2009.
Royal tombs of India : 13th to 18th century / A.S. Bhalla.
Actions:
Exemplaires:
Description:
152 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
livres
Ahmedabad, India : Mapin ; Ocean Township, N.J. : Grantha ; Easthampton, Mass. : Distributed in North America by Antique Collectors' Club, 2009.
The grammar of architecture
$42.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
The "Grammar of Architecture" uses engraved plates from the great works of architectural history to illustrate a show-and-tell journey around the architecture of civilizations east and west, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution. Extended captions and annotations supply the reader with a complete naming of parts and an explanation of how architects have planned(...)
The grammar of architecture
Actions:
Prix:
$42.95
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
The "Grammar of Architecture" uses engraved plates from the great works of architectural history to illustrate a show-and-tell journey around the architecture of civilizations east and west, from Ancient Egypt to the Industrial Revolution. Extended captions and annotations supply the reader with a complete naming of parts and an explanation of how architects have planned and made the buildings of the past, from Amhotep to the Palladio, and Vitruvius to Wren.
Dictionnaires
$22.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This publication presents four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) who discuss their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects. While their reflections represent a similar strata of art worker in terms of background,(...)
Why call it labor? On motherhood and art work
Actions:
Prix:
$22.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This publication presents four essays and one conversation with contemporary artists and curators from different backgrounds and origins (Jerusalem, Lebanon, Kuwait, USA, Egypt) who discuss their experience of becoming mothers as professionals in the arts, its reality and effects. While their reflections represent a similar strata of art worker in terms of background, class, and career trajectory, the impact of instruments of patriarchy on rendering maternity invisible that they describe is recognizable and insidious.
Théorie de l’art
$35.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Elucidating the history of world architecture--from the pyramids of Egypt and the temples of Greece to the ecological architecture of today--for both student and general readership, this ambitious book presents key buildings and styles in a passionate and engaged style. Pavlos Lefas emphasizes the contemporary applications of past architectural practices worldwide,(...)
Architecture: a historical perspective
Actions:
Prix:
$35.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
Elucidating the history of world architecture--from the pyramids of Egypt and the temples of Greece to the ecological architecture of today--for both student and general readership, this ambitious book presents key buildings and styles in a passionate and engaged style. Pavlos Lefas emphasizes the contemporary applications of past architectural practices worldwide, thematizing his chronology into such topics as architecture and mathematics, scale, utopia, minimalism, grids, tall buildings and landscape architecture.
livres
Description:
496 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 27 cm
Berlin : Jovis, [2014], ©2014
Specifics : proceedings ECLAS Conference 2013 : 22./25.09.2013 in Hamburg / edited by Christiane Sörensen, Karoline Liedtke, Department of Landscape Architecture, HafenCity University Hamburg.
Actions:
Exemplaires:
Description:
496 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, plans ; 27 cm
livres
Berlin : Jovis, [2014], ©2014
Chairs : a history
$34.98
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In "Chairs : history", furniture historian Florence de Dampierre presents a readable and visually exploration of chairs and their place in culture throughout the ages. Along with hundreds of photographs, th eauthor fills these pages with information, tracing the chair's emergence in ancient Egypt and examining various forms of seating from Classical Greece, the Roman(...)
Chairs : a history
Actions:
Prix:
$34.98
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In "Chairs : history", furniture historian Florence de Dampierre presents a readable and visually exploration of chairs and their place in culture throughout the ages. Along with hundreds of photographs, th eauthor fills these pages with information, tracing the chair's emergence in ancient Egypt and examining various forms of seating from Classical Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Renaissance era, to the classic designs of today - from thrones to divans, straight-backed to overstuffed, Baroque to Bauhaus, and contemporary.
livres soldés
Urbanomad : Guy Lafranchi
$7.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
The latest work by Guy Lafranchi presents new projects for Brazil, Switzerland, Egypt, and Hawaii as well as a number of conceptual projects presented through drawings, paintings, and models. Lebbeus Woods writes of Lafranchi: "I regard his work as original both in substance and approach. The title "Urbanomad" refers to the problems of the past and globalization,(...)
Urbanomad : Guy Lafranchi
Actions:
Prix:
$7.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
The latest work by Guy Lafranchi presents new projects for Brazil, Switzerland, Egypt, and Hawaii as well as a number of conceptual projects presented through drawings, paintings, and models. Lebbeus Woods writes of Lafranchi: "I regard his work as original both in substance and approach. The title "Urbanomad" refers to the problems of the past and globalization, problems that many architects talk about, but that only a few, such as Lafranchi, convert into architecture of the highest standard."
livres soldés
livres
$21.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This pocket book describes the source of the Islamic architectural tradition in the ubiquitous courtyard house, and the development of the mosque as both place of worship and centre of the community, its form moulded by the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran and given various monumental forms as the conquests of Islam brought contact with the traditions of Egypt,(...)
Four caliphates : the formation of the Islamic tradition
Actions:
Prix:
$21.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
This pocket book describes the source of the Islamic architectural tradition in the ubiquitous courtyard house, and the development of the mosque as both place of worship and centre of the community, its form moulded by the requirements of prayer set out in the Koran and given various monumental forms as the conquests of Islam brought contact with the traditions of Egypt, Persia, and China. The book also explains the development of the tradition in tombs, palaces and fortifications.
livres
octobre 1998, London
petits formats
$83.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the late twentieth century. For this seventh edition, revising author Owen Hopkins provides a new introduction contextualizing Watkin's approach. The final chapter on the twenty-first century has been completely rewritten by(...)
janvier 2023
A history of Western architecture, 7th edition
Actions:
Prix:
$83.00
(disponible sur commande)
Résumé:
In this highly acclaimed reference work David Watkin traces the history of western architecture from the earliest times in Mesopotamia and Egypt to the late twentieth century. For this seventh edition, revising author Owen Hopkins provides a new introduction contextualizing Watkin's approach. The final chapter on the twenty-first century has been completely rewritten by Hopkins, who brings the story right up to date with the inclusion of such topics as re-use, digital cities and virtual architecture.